Our route

Here's the detail of the route Sarah and I intend to follow for our trip to Mongolia and back.   We are considering taking the EuroTunnel from Folkestone to Calais as this takes 35 minutes and will give us more travelling time to get to Reims.  We will take a ferry to cross the Bosphorus at Gallipoli on our way to Ephesus.

Although we need a visa for Turkey we can always get this at the border so the only dates we really must meet are those where we need to get visas in advance so we need to get to the Iran border (our first must meet date) for the 9th July from there we are on a schedule to make sure we don't miss any of the entry dates where we need visas (highlighted in the table).

The following chart gives our starting place and destination with the approximate distance between places.  The date is when we leave wherever it is we are at.

Date Distance (Miles)
Home to Dover 06/06/2015 132
Calais to Reims 168
Reims, France to Berne, Switzerland 07/06/2015 336
Berne, Switzerland to Milan, Italy 08/06/2015 201
Milan to Venice 10/06/2015 171
Venice, Italy to Vienna, Austria 12/06/2015 380
Vienna, Austria to Budapest, Hungary 14/06/2015 152
Budapest, Hungary to Bucharest, Romania 16/06/2015 513
Bucharest, Romania to Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria 20/06/2015 113
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria to Edirne, Turkey 22/06/2015 165
Edirne to Istanbul 23/06/2015 149
Istanbul to Gallipoli 26/06/2015 186
Gallipoli to Ephesus 27/06/2015 284
Ephesus to Goreme 30/06/2015 492
Goreme to Malatya 05/07/2015 261
Malatya to Van 06/07/2015 367
Van to Dogubayazit 08/07/2015 108
Dogubayazit to Tabriz, Iran 09/07/2015 197
Tabriz to Masuleh 10/07/2015 289
Masuleh to Tehran 14/07/2015 242
Tehran to Isfahan 18/07/2015 286
Isfahan to Persepolis 22/07/2015 267
Persepolis to Yazd 24/07/2015 242
Yazd to Shirvan 26/07/2015 621
Shirvan, Iran to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan 29/07/2015 94
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan to Khiva, Uzbekistan 03/08/2015 418
Khiva to Bukhara 04/08/2015 280
Bukhara to Samarkand 07/08/2015 173
Samakand to Denau 10/08/2015 232
Denau, Uzbekistan to Dushanbe, Tajikistan 11/08/2015 68
Dushanbe to Khorog, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province 12/08/2015 326
Khorog, Tajikistan to Osh, Kyrgyzstan 16/08/2015 456
Osh to Bishkek 22/08/2015 387
Bishkek to Almaty, Kazakhstan 26/08/2015 146
Almaty to Semey 28/08/2015 697
Semey,Kazakhstan to Barnaul, Russia 03/09/2015 283
Barnaul to Kosh-Agach 05/09/2015 428
Kosh-Agach, Russia to Bayan-Ulgii, Mongolia 08/09/2015 108
Bayan-Ulgii to Ulanbataar 09/09/2015 1056
Ulanbataar to Altanbulag 22/09/2015 216
Altanbulag, Mongolia to Ulan-Ude, Russia 25/09/2015 147
Ulan-Ude to Irkutsk 26/09/2015 286
Irtutsk to  Novosibirsk 29/09/2015 1270
Novosibirsk to Omsk 05/10/2015 487
Omsk to Tyumen 08/10/2015 392
Tyumen to Perm 11/10/2015 434
Perm to Nizhny Novgorod 14/10/2015 615
Nizhny Novgorod to Moscow 17/10/2015 261
Moscow to St Petersburg 20/10/2015 441
St Petersburg, Russia to Tallinn, Estonia 25/10/2015 227
Tallinn to Tartu 27/10/2015 116
Tartu,Estonia to Riga, Latvia 28/10/2015 154
Riga, Estonia to Vilnius, Lithuania 30/10/2015 154
Vilnius, Lithuania to  Bialystok, Poland 01/11/2015 189
Bialystok to Warsaw 02/11/2015 120
Warsaw to Krakow 04/11/2015 120
Krakow, Poland to Prague, Czech Republic 06/11/2015 296
Prague, Czech Republic to Nuremberg, Germany 08/11/2015 185
Nuremberg, Germany to Luxemburg City, Luxembourg 09/11/2015 294
Luxemburg City, Luxembourg to Brussels, Belgium 10/11/2015 119
Brussels, Belgium to Calais, France 11/11/2015 123
Dover to Home 132



The route is around 18,250 miles and goes through 23 countries and is nearly three quarters of the way around the globe!